Kāśyapa Buddha
| Kassapa Buddha | |
|---|---|
 Ananda Temple Buddha, Myanmar | |
| Sanskrit | Kasyapa Buddha |
| Pāli | Kassapa Buddha |
| Burmese | ကဿပ ([kaʔθəpa̰]) |
| Chinese | 迦葉佛 |
| Japanese | 迦葉; かしょう (Kashō) |
| Khmer | ព្រះពុទ្ធកស្សបោ (Preah Puth Kassapao) |
| Mongolian | ᠭᠡᠷᠡᠯ ᠰᠠᠬᠢᠭᠴᠢ, Гашив, (Geshib) |
| Thai | พระกัสสปพุทธเจ้า (Phra Kassapa Phutthachao) |
| Tibetan | འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ (Ösung Chenpo) |
| Vietnamese | Phật Ca-Diếp |
| Information | |
| Venerated by | Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana |
| Preceded by | Koṇāgamana Buddha |
| Succeeded by | Gautama Buddha |
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Kāśyapa (P. Kassapa; T. 'od srung; C. jaishe) is one the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, who proceded the current Buddha (Gautama Buddha). In the Sankrit Mahayana tradition, he is also identified as the third of the 1002 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon.
Pali tradition
In the Pali tradition, Kassapa Buddha's biography is chronicled in chapter 24[1] of the Buddhavamsa. According to this tradition, Kassapa is the twenty-seventh of the twenty-nine named Buddhas, the sixth of the Seven Buddhas of Antiquity, and the third of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa.[2]
The present kalpa is called the bhadrakalpa (fortunate aeon). The five Buddhas of the present kalpa are:[3][4]
- Kakusandha (the first Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Koṇāgamana (the second Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Kassapa (the third Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Gautama (the fourth and present Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
- Maitreya (the fifth and future Buddha of the bhadrakalpa)
Biography
Kassapa was born in Isipatana Deer Park. This place is located in Varanasi, a city in the modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. His parents were the Brahmins Brahmadatta and Dhanavatī, of the Kashyap Gotra.[1]
According to legend, his body was twenty cubits high, and he lived for two thousand years in three different palaces. They are Hamsa, Yasa, and Sirinanda.[1] (The BuA.217 calls the first two palaces Hamsavā and Yasavā). His chief wife was Sunandā, who bore him a son named Vijitasena.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Vicittasarabivamsa, U (1992). "Chapter 24: Kassapa Buddhavamsa". In Ko Lay, U; Tin Lwin, U. The great chronicle of Buddhas, Volume One, Part Two (1st ed.). Yangon, Myanmar: Ti=Ni Publishing Center. pp. 285–92.
- ↑ Gärtner, Uta; Jens Lorenz (1994). Tradition and modernity in Myanmar. LIT Verlag. p. 281. ISBN 978-3-8258-2186-9.
- ↑ Buswell Jr., RE; Lopez Jr., DS (2014). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (1st ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-691-15786-3.
- ↑ "Chapter 36: The Buddhas in the three periods of time". Buddhism in a Nutshell Archives. Hong Kong: Buddhistdoor International. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
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| Preceded by Koṇāgamana Buddha |
Seven Buddhas of the Past | Succeeded by Śākyamuni Buddha |
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